Morgins Choral Workshop

Take a deep breath of pure mountain air and sing!

Mark Jones, Director of Music at Gresham's School, north Norfolk & a specialist in voice training will lead rehearsals, working towards a series of concerts which will take place in and around Morgins and Montreux.
Mark was educated at Exeter Cathedral School, Devon where he was head chorister. After 5 years at Kings College, Taunton where he won the major music scholarship, he studied piano and organ at the Royal College of Music; this included a 2 year post-graduate conducting course and a year working as repetiteur in the Opera School. Mark's main work at Gresham's has been choral and he works with many individual singers as well as the choirs. He runs three choirs at Gresham's; the Chapel Choir consisting of 80 boys and girls singing two choral services a week and two chamber choirs singing a wide range of music. Each year 45 singers undertake a week's tour to Europe and recent tours have included Italy, Spain & Portugal. Five members of the present choir sing in the National Youth Choir and the music department has been very successful over the past few years in the number of choral scholarships gained by pupils. For the past eight years Michael Brewer, Director of the National Youth Choir, has spent three days a year at Gresham's giving masterclasses to singers and working with the choir.

The Morgins Choral Workshop 26th July - 2nd August 2006

We will follow the same format as last year: mornings (and some evenings) will be spent rehearsing whilst during the afternoons you'll be able to relax and enjoy the mountains. We will be singing Mass in Troistorrents and Monthey and we'll also be working on a couple of concerts; one in the famous Abbaye of St Maurice and the other in Chatel, France.

We have a limited number of places available and we will work on a first come, first served basis. This is a unique opportunity to improve the quality of one's voice under expert instruction alongside others who share the same enthusiasm for singing.

The cost for the Morgins Choral Workshop will be £290 per person and this includes:

•  Transfer from Geneva to Morgins return. We will collect from the airport at 16:00 on the 26th July & return to the airport on the •  2nd August departing Morgins at 12:00.
•  Half-board accommodation (en-suite) in one of our traditional chalets. Please note that lunches are not provided.
•  Voice training and rehearsals.
•  All music.
•  Transportation to the various venues.